Zombies are officially the trendiest horror theme in the past 15 years[views:9362][posts:67]______________________________________ [Mar 5,2012 5:25pm - aaron_michael ""] arilliusbm said:Underworld is meeeeeeeehhhhh Best newer Zombie movie was Rec and 28 Days Later Hate to say it, but Rec and 28 Days Later weren't zombie movies. They had more of a relation to the monkey in Outbreak than Bub in Day of the Dead. |
| ___________________________________ [Mar 5,2012 5:26pm - arilliusbm ""] Why not? |
| __________________________________________ [Mar 5,2012 5:27pm - FuckIsMySignature ""] nope those are zombie movies. |
| ________________________________ [Mar 5,2012 5:28pm - RustyPS ""] FuckIsMySignature said:nope those are zombie movies.KHED, YO FACE IS A ZOMBIE MOVIE |
| ______________________________________ [Mar 5,2012 5:30pm - aaron_michael ""] Those movies were about viruses making people sick. Not the dead being reanimated. Rec was about a guy who wanted to create a virus that would wipe out the human race but instead it mutated and made people strip to their bare animal insticts to feed and dominate. 28 Days/Weeks Later was along the same lines. Military testing on apes to try and create an antidote to combat major diseases and illnesses. Still in the testing stages, it inhibits human rage. |
| _________________________________ [Mar 5,2012 5:30pm - posbleak ""] arilliusbm said:Why not? One's about a disease (not undead zombies) and the other is about a virus/demonic possession (spoiler alert lol) Some people will argue that only The Serpent & The Rainbow is "really" a zombie movie |
| ______________________________________ [Mar 5,2012 5:33pm - aaron_michael ""] I'd say voodoo raising the dead is borderline legitimate |
| ___________________________________ [Mar 5,2012 5:37pm - arilliusbm ""] I guess if you want to get into specifics, yea. But that's like calling Star Wars scifi (often labelled as) when it's really not, although it has elements of. But a stumbling person making BLAAAARGH noises and chasing the living qualifies as a zombie movie in my outdated book, regardless of if theyre a traditional zombie or not. |
| __________________________________________ [Mar 5,2012 5:38pm - FuckIsMySignature ""] aaron_michael said:Those movies were about viruses making people sick. Not the dead being reanimated. Rec was about a guy who wanted to create a virus that would wipe out the human race but instead it mutated and made people strip to their bare animal insticts to feed and dominate. 28 Days/Weeks Later was along the same lines. Military testing on apes to try and create an antidote to combat major diseases and illnesses. Still in the testing stages, it inhibits human rage. i was always of the opinion that a zombie was just a generic term for the waking dead - regardless of how they got that way. |
| ________________________________________ [Mar 5,2012 5:58pm - trioxin 245nli ""] thread title is OLD news |
| ________________________________________ [Mar 5,2012 6:01pm - trioxin 245nli ""] arilliusbm said:Underworld is meeeeeeeehhhhh just meh? Underworld was like watching a three-legged dog splatter diarrhea all over a big pile of garbage in slow-motion, only with a weaker plot and even less likable characters. |
| ________________________________ [Mar 5,2012 6:17pm - RustyPS ""] trioxin%20245nli said: arilliusbm said:Underworld is meeeeeeeehhhhh just meh? Underworld was like watching a three-legged dog splatter diarrhea all over a big pile of garbage in slow-motion, only with a weaker plot and even less likable characters. My opinion on Underworld was they tried to make The Matrix into a vampire/werewolf movie. Everyone can agree it wasn't as good, but they somehow managed to get one more sequel than The Matrix did (if you don't count the Animatrix). |
| ________________________________________________________________________ [Jul 30,2012 9:54am - Real Aril Posting as Fake Aril but really not ""] Zombies suck. |
| ___________________________________________ [Jul 30,2012 10:00pm - douchebag_patrol ""] [img] |
| __________________________________________ [Jul 30,2012 10:06pm - Headbanging_Man ""] I still feel it's gotten almost to the point where it feels like a psy-op. I'm not sure if it'd be aimed at promoting the Malthusian worldview preferred by the global financial elite or simply conditioning more Americans to the idea of slaughtering "subhumans" as a means of survival. Maybe both. |
| __________________________________________ [Jul 30,2012 10:09pm - Headbanging_Man ""] Also the idea that "infected" or "possessed" can't be viewed as zombies in some cases is stupid... Zombies don't have to be dead; the term was originally applied to victims of arcane Haitian mind-control techniques, who were quite decidedly not dead. |
| _____________________________________ [Jul 31,2012 12:26am - trioxin245 ""] zombies were my favorite sub-genre as a kid. Nowadays, Im ashamed to ever have associated myself with zombies in any way. The times they are a-changin |
| ______________________________ [Jul 31,2012 8:05am - Yeti ""] Headbanging_Man said:Also the idea that "infected" or "possessed" can't be viewed as zombies in some cases is stupid... Zombies don't have to be dead; the term was originally applied to victims of arcane Haitian mind-control techniques, who were quite decidedly not dead. this. when i was a kid i was obsessed with monsters, i had all these books on the origin stories of zombies, vampires, werewolves, etc. which i think are far cooler than the gay stories people tell now. no one gave a shit about horror stuff, i was one of the only losers who cared. i treat zombies like i treat black metal. if someone talks about either, they are gay hipsters. |